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Butter : a novel of food and murder
by Asako Yuzuki
After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins corresponding with a gourmet cook convicted of killing multiple lonely businessmen and notices herself slowly beginning to change after each meal she eats. 50,000 first printing.
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Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
A meditative collection from Poland explores themes of travel, movement and existentialism in stories that feature protagonists who question their shifting perspectives in time and space as they tackle extreme agendas.
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Gravel heart : Abdulrazak Gurnah.
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal"
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Washington : a life
by Ron Chernow
The National Book Award-winning author of The House of Morgan offers a comprehensive account of the life of George Washington, disposing of the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man and instead bringing to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods who fiercely guarded his private life. 600,000 first printing.
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Bad kids
by Zijin Chen
"One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a remote mountain. It's the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. For Zhang did not expect that 3 kids would catch him in the act while they're working on a photography project. When an opportunity for blackmail presents itself the trio start down a dark path that will lead to the unravelling of all their lives"
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The girl who saved the King of Sweden
by Jonas Jonasson
Nombeko Mayeki, who has risen out of poverty to become a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled. 100,000 first printing.
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The murder rule : a novel
by Dervla McTiernan
A young woman, posing as an idealistic law student, tricks everyone into believing she is working to save an innocent man on death row when she is really there to bury him. 100,000 first printing,
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The good turn
by Dervla McTiernan
"Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work for his overbearing father, the local copper for the pretty seaside town of Roundstone. For some, like Anna and her young daughter Tilly, Roundstone is a refuge from trauma. But even this village on the edge of the sea isn't far enough to escape from the shadows of evil men"
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The gifts of imperfection
by Brené Brown
Brown explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an 'imperfect' life and embracing living authentically. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, she provides ten 'guideposts' that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty-- a perfectly imperfect life
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Forbidden notebook : a novel
by Alba De Céspedes
A woman dissatisfied with her hollow, bourgeois life jots down her thoughts and feelings in a diary, in a modern translation of the original novel by the best-selling Cuban-Italian feminist who was jailed for anti-fascist activates whose books were banned.
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The hero of this book : a novel
by Elizabeth McCracken
After her mother's death, the narrator, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary and even though she wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, must decide whether chronicling this remarkable life is an act of love or betrayal. 125,000 first printing.
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Slow horses
by Mick Herron
Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominent British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager
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The anomaly
by Hervé Le Tellier
Blending together crime, fantasy, sci-fi and thriller, this fast-paced, whip-smart novel poses the question of who would we be if we had made different choices as the passengers of Air France 006 are about to find out. Original.
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We trade our night for someone else's day
by Ivana Simić Bodroézić
"The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the sight of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers. In this city without a name, fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats, and city leaders still fight to free themselves from violent crimes they committed--or permitted--during the war a generation ago. Now, it is left to a new generation--the children, now grown up, to extricate themselves from this tragic place, innocents who are nonetheless connected in different ways to the crimes of the past. Nora is a journalist assigned to do a puff piece on the perpetrator of a crime of passion--a Croatian high school teacher who fell in love with one of her students, a Serb, and is now in prison for having murdered her husband. But Nora herself is the daughter of a man who was murdered years earlier under mysterious circumstances. And she wants, if not to avenge her father, at least to bring to justice whoever committed the crime. There's a hothouse intensity to this extraordinary noir page-turner because of how closely the author sets the novel within the historical record. This city is unnamed, the story is fictional, so it can show us what actually happened there"
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Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
A follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.
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Olav audunssøn : Vows by Sigrid UndsetAs a child, Olav Audunssøn is given by his dying father to an old friend, Steinfinn Toressøn, who rashly promises to raise the boy as his foster son and eventually marry him to his own daughter, Ingunn. The two children, very different in temperament, become both brother and sister and betrothed. In the turbulent thirteenth-century Norway of Sigrid Undset’s epic masterpiece, bloodlines and loyalties often supersede law, and the crown and the church vie for power and wealth. Against this background and the complicated relationship between Olav and Ingunn, a series of fateful decisions leads to murder, betrayal, exile, and disgrace. In Vows, the first book in the powerful Olav Audunssøn tetralogy, Undset presents a richly imagined world split between pagan codes of retribution and the constraints of Christian piety—all of which threaten to destroy the lives of two young people torn between desires of the heart and the dictates of family and fortune.
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Send for me
by Lauren Fox
"Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer: a brick thrown through her window; a childhood friend who cuts ties with her; customers refusing to patronize the bakery. Luckily Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain. Two generations later, in a small Midwestern city, Annelise's granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of her grandmother's letters from Germany, she sees the history of her family's sacrifices in a new light, and suddenly she's faced with an impossible choice: the past, or her future. A novel of dazzling emotional richness that is based on letters from Lauren Fox's own family, Send for Me is a major departure for this acclaimed author, an epic and intimate exploration of mothers and daughters, duty and obligation, hope and forgiveness"
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The committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer finds the unnamed “man of two minds” and his blood brother dealing drugs in 1980s Paris, where he navigates the worlds of privileged clients while trying to reconcile two politically polarized friends.
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The swallowed man
by Edward Carey
A reimagining of Carlo Collodi’s classic Pinocchio story depicts a lonely woodcarver whose life in a Tuscan village is upended by a marionette he is compelled to carve that comes frighteningly to life and torments his existence with rebellious lies. Illustrations.
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Let me tell you what I mean
by Joan Didion
A volume of 12 previously uncollected early pieces shares insights into the author’s evolving literary style and includes reflections on such topics as a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a Vegas WWI veteran reunion and a visit to San Simeon.
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The push : a novel
by Ashley Audrain
A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daughter, a fear that is complicated by her husband’s dismissive views and the birth of a healthy son. A first novel.
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The man who died
by Antti Tuomainen
A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful rollercoaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations and unexpected twists. With a nod to Fargo and the best elements of the Scandinavian noir tradition, The Man Who Died is a page-turning thriller brimming with the blackest comedy surrounding life and death, and love and betrayal, markinng a stunning new departure for the King of Helsinki Noir
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After she's gone : a novel
by Camilla Grebe
An amnesia-stricken psychological profiler struggling to recall the details of the case she had been investigating and a teenage boy with a closely guarded secret are brought together by a murder and the race to stop the killer from striking again
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Borkmann's Point : An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Hakan Nesser
When an ex-convict and then a wealthy real-estate tycoon fall victim to a violent attack by a possible ax-murderer, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to assist with the local investigation, a probe that becomes complicated by yet another murder and the disappearance of a promising female detective who may have gotten too close to the truth. Reprint.
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A Nearly Normal Family
by M. T. Edvardsson
A legal thriller told in three acts follows the trial of a 18-year-old girl from an upstanding family who has been implicated in the murder of a shady businessman, testing the limits of her father's faith and mother's ethics.
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The ice beneath her : a novel
by Camilla Grebe
Investigating a grisly murder in a business tycoon's Stockholm residence, detective Peter Lindgren and psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Sch÷n navigate complications in their own relationship while tracking down the businessman, who may have been having an affair with the victim.
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The boy in the field : a novel
by Margot Livesey
Saving the life of a young boy, three siblings find their bond challenged by their parents' troubled marriage and their respective efforts to identify the boy's attacker, manage a new relationship and search for a birth parent. 30,000 first printing.
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We Germans : a novel
by Alexander Starritt
"In the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of becoming a scientist, is drafted into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front. But soon his regiment collapses in the face of the onslaught of the Red Army, hell-bent on revenge in its race to Berlin. Many decades later, now an old man reckoning with his past, Meissner pens a letter to his grandson explaining his actions, his guilt as a Nazi participator, and the difficulty of life after war. Found among his effects after his death, the letter is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a questing rumination on the moral ambiguity of war. In his years spent fighting the Russians and attempting afterward to survive the Gulag, Meissner recounts a life lived in perseverance and atonement. Wracked with shame--both for himself and for Germany--the grandfather explains his dark rationale, exults in the courage of others, and blurs the boundaries of right and wrong. We Germans complicates our most steadfast beliefs and seeks to account for the complicity of an entire country in the perpetration of heinous acts. In this breathless and page-turning story, Alexander Starritt also presents us with a deft exploration of the moral contradictions inherent in saving one's own life at the cost of the lives of others and asks whether we can ever truly atone"
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Burned : a novel by Thomas Enger Traumatized and scarred by the fire that killed his 6-year-old son, Oslo crime reporter Henning Juul investigates the brutal murder of a local woman and becomes increasingly convinced that the case's chief suspect, a Pakistani native, is innocent.
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Closed for winter
by Jørn Lier Horst
Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars and next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death.
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I'm traveling alone
by Samuel Bjørk
Reopening a special homicide unit to investigate the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl, veteran homicide detective Holger Munch recruits detective Mia Krüger, who quickly discovers links between the case and an infant abduction years earlier
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The day is dark
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thóra is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the disappearance of a woman from the site some months earlier? And why are the locals so hostile?
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Marked for life
by Emelie Schepp
Public prosecutor Jana Berzelius investigates the murder of a high-ranking head of the migration board, leading her to a dangerous child trafficking ring connected to her own dark childhood
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Against the Wall by Sipila, Jarkko An abandoned house in Northern Helsinki, a dead body in the garage. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamäki's homicide team gets a case that looks like a professional hit but they are perplexed by the crime scene. Takamäki's trusted man Suhonen goes undercover as Suikkanen, a gangster full of action. In pursuit of the murderer, he must operate within the grey area of the law. But, will the end justify the means?
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Box 21
by Anders Roslund
Sold into sex slavery in their pursuit of better lives in Sweden, Lithuanian girls Lydia and Alena learn of a chance to secure their freedom and take revenge on their enslavers
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Dregs
by Jørn Lier Horst
A police report of a shoe containing a severed foot washed up on the sand introduces CI William Wisting. Soon a second is washed up, but it is another left. Has there been some kind of terrible accident at sea? Does it indicate the killing and dismembering of two victims? Is there a link with the unsolved mystery of a number of disappearances in th
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The midnight witness
by Sara Blædel
While investigating the murder of a young woman, who was found strangled in a park, Detective Louise Rick must help her friend, journalist Camilla Lind, when she goes too far while trying to discover who killed a fellow journalist. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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The kingdom
by Jo Nesbø
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets
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The German house : a novel
by Annette Hess
Caught between societal and family expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power, a young translator fights to expose the dark truths of her nation’s past. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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Lives of others
Set in East Berlin in 1984, a secret service agent assigned to monitor a playwright and his girlfriend begins to question his assignment and his loyalty to the government
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Alone in Berlin /
After their son is killed in battle during World War II, a Berlin couple turn their rage and grief into a wave of anti-Nazi postcards, which draws the attention of a police inspector
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Bad words /
After losing a spelling bee as a child, forty-year-old Guy Trilby finds a loophole and enters the competition as an adult
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Tangerines /
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, two Estonian immigrant farmers decide to remain in Georgia long enough to be able to harvest their tangerine crop
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Breaking the waves /
Paralyzed from an accident, an oil rig worker returns to his wife in a small religious community and urges her to have sex with another man
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Walk on water
Assigned to track down an elderly Nazi war criminal, Eyal, an Israeli agent, poses as a tour guide to the man's grandson in hopes of obtaining a lead
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Railway man /
The story of Eric Lomax, a British officer who was captured by the Japanese and sent to a Thai POW camp during World War II
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Visitor
Lonely widower Walter befriends the immigrant couple who unwittingly leased his New York apartment, and fights for them when they are threatened with deportation
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Lunchbox
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's lunchbox delivery system leads to a connection between a young housewife to an older man
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Shall we dance?
A middle-aged workaholic, turns to ballroom dancing to meet the sexy teacher, only to end up with a different teacher in a class of eccentric beginners
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As it is in heaven
A successful conductor with health problems suddenly leaves his job and returns to his childhood home in Sweden, and finds himself drawn to the unusual characters, one woman in particular, when he begins helping out the local church choir
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Man with one red shoe
The CIA wants to know why eccentric violinist Hanks got off a plane in Washington, D.C. wearing one red shoe. They send undercover agent Singer to find out why
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Bad sleep well A young executive (Mifune) marries the boss' daughter to infiltrate the family and expose their corrupt business dealings, however his plans begin to fall apart when he finds himself falling in love with his wife.
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Fill the void /
When her own marriage is postponed, and an eighteen-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister
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Strictly ballroom
A young ballroom dancing champion breaks the rules and defies convention when he uses new steps and moves, all of which please the crowds but anger other ballroom dancers
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Stalker
by Lars Kepler
Two sadistic murders by a killer who would play games with the police prompt Swedish detective Joona Linna and trauma hypnotherapist Erik Maria Bark to take the case, which has disturbing ties to a years-old conviction. By the best-selling authors of The Sandman
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The kites
by Romain Gary
Young Ludo lives in the French countryside with his uncle, a kite maker, and falls in love with Lila, the daughter of a Polish aristocrat, but when she disappears after Germany invades Poland during World War II, Ludo is determined to save her from the Nazis
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Macbeth
by Jo Nesbø
A modern retelling of Macbeth by the award-winning author of the Harry Hole series is set in a run-down industrial town in the 1970s and follows the efforts of a popular but increasingly corrupt police officer and his calculating casino owner girlfriend to work with a powerful local drug dealer to murder a professional rival and set up his best friend.
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One station away
by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
A New York neurologist navigates his bonds with three women—including an overlooked pianist on the brink of success, a recently deceased dancer, and a mysteriously comatose patient—relationships defined by compromise, silence, illness and an obsessive attempt to communicate. By the author of The Journey Home. 20,000 first printing.
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The punishment she deserves : a Lynley novel
by Elizabeth George
Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and the pugnacious but loyal detective sergeant Barbara Havers tackle one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered in a latest entry in the best-selling series by the Agatha Award-winning author of A Banquet of Consequences.
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by Niki Brantmark In a fast-paced world, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could slow down and enjoy a life with less pressure, less stress, and more time for the things you love? Sweden is ranked in the top three of the world’s happiest places to live, and lagom, which means “not too much and not too little—just right,” is the Swedish philosophy for enjoying balance in every aspect of life—from work and leisure to family and food, and everything in between. Experienced bakers know by touch when the dough they are kneading is lagom—not too moist and not too dry. At the office, professionals who work hard—but not to the detriment of other parts of their lives—are following the lagom ideal. Lagom is moderation, balance, and equality. By using the Swedish lifestyle as an example, Niki Brantmark offers insightful suggestions and bite-sized actions to help you make subtle changes to your life, so you too can make time for the things that matter most and find greater happiness.
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The undertaker's daughter
by Sara Blædel
Receiving an unexpected inheritance from the father who abandoned her, 40-year-old widow Ilka Nichols Jenson impulsively travels from Copenhagen to her late father's mortuary in Wisconsin and begins to comb through his estate before stumbling on an unsolved murder. By the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Forgotten Girls. 50,000 first printing.
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The truth and other lies : a novel
by Sascha Arango
Author Henry Hayden is left to deal with substantial consequences after his wife—the actual writer of the novels that made him famous —meets an untimely death.
Sascha Arango, one of Germany’s most prominent screenplay writers, is a two-time winner of the Grimme Prize, a prestigious award for German television, for his work on the long-running detective series Tatort. The Truth and Other Lies is his first novel.
"Smart, sardonic, and compulsively readable, this is the story of a man whose cunning allows him to evade the consequences of his every action, even when he’s standing on the edge of the abyss."
– A New York Times NOTABLE BOOK
"A cross between James M. Cain and Patricia Highsmith, with a wide streak of sardonic humor, this is one wicked tale. You keep waiting for the author to slip, plot-wise, but, as with his protagonist, you wait in vain. German screenwriter Arango's first novel is superior pulp, with schemers all around and plenty to say about fame, identity, and mortality." – Kirkus Review
“Arango, a German television writer, has constructed a clever plot that always surprises, told with dark humor and dry wit and bustling with aperçus that show no signs of jet lag from Imogen Taylor’s clean translation. (‘Every lie must contain a certain amount of truth if it’s to be convincing,’ Henry reflects, ‘like the olive in the martini.’) It’s a story constructed out of and upon lies.”
– New York Times Sunday Book Review
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Cold light
by Jenn Ashworth
In this disturbing psychological thriller, two 14-year-old girls, best friends, find their lives forever changed during one terrible summer when lies, secrets, jealousy and a dangerous predatory adult result in tragedy, shaking their small English town to the core.
An unforgettable tale of friendship and memory—and the shattering truth behind a forgotten dead body newly unearthed—Cold Light is a welcome addition to the crime fiction and thriller ranks.
Ashworth’s first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, won a 2010 Betty Trask Award. After the publication of Cold Light in 2011, she was featured on the BBC’s Culture Show as one of the UK’s 12 best new novelists.
Watch the trailer!
“[Ashworth] Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell.”
– The Times (London)
“Ashworth has the rare gift of being able to make her reader feel perverse and voyeuristic, implicated somehow in the tragedy laid out on the pages.”
– Sunday Times (London)
“Ashworth’s real subject is how we are unwittingly hurt by those in whom we have placed trust. Cold Light is filled with bruises, bleeding and psychological bludgeoning. A novel also about the power and pitfalls of narrative, it is told by the hand of a true storyteller.”
– The Independent
“Remember teenage bitching and insecurity? This book will take you back there, except with more lies and gruesome murder. Scarily believable.”
– Fabulous
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The square of revenge
by Pieter Aspe
A bizarre jewelry store burglary (involving jewels being dissolved in super-strong acid) and a note with a square on it left behind in a safe, sends Inspector Van In on a strange investigation involving Latin phrases, kidnapping and stolen, priceless art.
The Square of Revenge, by Pieter Aspe, is the first in a series of novels to feature Inspector Pieter Van In of Bruges. Aspe lives in Bruges, Belgium, and is one of that country's most popular contemporary writers. Inspector Van In has been compared to Simenon's Maigret and appears again in The Midas Murders and From Bruges with Love, also available in English.
“Aspe is and always will be one of our best authors. An exciting murder mystery, a pinch of humor, and a generous serving of sex are among the highlights of the series.”
– Crimezone.nl (Belgium)
"Set in the splendid medieval city of Bruges, it stars Inspector Pieter Van In, a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of....Van In’s intuitive and often impulsive detection style can be disorienting, but his powers of observation are sharp and his insider’s view of this ancient and grandly aloof city are priceless. ”
– Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"Belgian crime-fiction veteran Aspe's English-language debut thriller, originally published in Europe in 1995, introduces readers to chain-smoking, perpetually out-of-sorts DI Pieter Van In.
With a quirky character that is equal parts Simenon and Tati, this lighthearted novel has a decidedly European sensibility, but why it has taken so long for the series to reach U.S. shores is a mystery....Aspe satisfies the demands of a good mystery with his clever plotting and brisk pacing. The book is stocked with lively characters on both sides of the law, including a bad guy forced to impersonate a priest.
– Kirkus Reviews
“The Flemish Georges Simenon.”
– Le Figaro (France)
“A very likeable and very politically incorrect group of detectives. Humor is permanent, the plot is well constructed, and the whole story extremely exotic.”
– L'Express (France)
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A man called Ove : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
A curmudgeonly old man, Ove hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. and clashes with his new neighbors, a boisterous family with small children whose chattiness and habits lead to an unexpected friendship. This is the first novel by Swedish author Fredrik Backman who also wrote My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry and Britt-Marie Was Here.
But how do you pronounce "Ove?" That's the $64,000 question, unless you're Swedish.
"The debut novel from journalist Backman is a fuzzy crowd-pleaser that serves up laughs to accompany a thoughtful reflection on loss and love. Though Ove’s antics occasionally feel repetitive, the author writes with winning charm."
– Publisher's Weekly (star/PW Pic)
"I loved A Man Called Ove so much that I started to ration how much I read to prolong my time with this cantankerous, low-key, misunderstood man. If you enjoyed Rachel Joyce’s marvellous bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, you will love this book. Each short chapter of A Man Called Ove could stand alone as a beautifully crafted short story. Bring the chapters together and you have the most uplifting, life-affirming and often comic tale of how kindness, love and happiness can be found in the most unlikely places. "
– Jane Clinton, Express (London)
"In the contest of Most Winning Combination, it would be hard to beat grumpy Ove and his hidden, generous heart."
– Kirkus Reviews
A Man Called Ove has been made into a movie in Sweden. Watch the trailer (with subtitles).
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Vengeance : a novel
by Benjamin Black
Detective Inspector Hackett and his occasional partner Quirke investigate the suicide of a prominent Irish businessman in this new crime novel from the author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan. 60,000 first printing.
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Every man dies alone
by Hans Fallada
Tells the story of a working-class German couple who lose their son to war and begin a small resistance movement against Nazi power
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The caller
by Karin Fossum
Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard coinciding with an unharmed child who was discovered in her stroller covered in blood in this latest installment of the Norwegian crime series following The Water's Edge. 20,000 first printing.
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Perfect hatred
by Leighton Gage
Tackling a formidable double caseload involving a suicide bombing allegedly committed by a militant Islamic group and the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate, Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team investigate clues that suggest the cases are related, a situation that is complicated by the prison release of a vengeful adversary.
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How's the pain?
by Pascal Garnier
Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and he needs a driver. Veering from the hilarious to the horrific, this offbeat story from Pascal Garnier, is at heart an affecting study of human frailty.
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Moon in a dead eye
by Pascal Garnier
Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that.
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Some Kind of Peace
by Camilla Grebe
An internationally best-selling first installment in a planned series introduces widowed Stockholm psychotherapist Siri Bergman, who realizes in the wake of a client's murder that she is being targeted by a killer who prompts her investigation at the side of young policeman, Markus. 50,000 first printing.
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The swerve : how the world became modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
A humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of On the Nature of Things by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers and scientists. 80,000 first printing.
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Brenner and God
by Wolf Haas
Simon Brenner tries to get away from stressful detective work by taking a chauffeur job shuttling a two-year-old girl between her parents in Munich and Vienna, but he is soon back to his old ways when the girl is kidnapped under his watch
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Before I burn
by Gaute Heivoll
A terrorizing month of arson fires and suspicion in a 1970s Norway community ends in the christening of a young boy named Gaute Neivoll, whose youth is shaped by the time of fear and fire until, as an adult, he begins to retell the stories of his neighbors while gradually discovering the identity of the arsonist. 20,000 first printing.
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The devotion of suspect X
by Keigo Higashino
In a first English-language translation of an award-winning work in Japan, a clever mathematics teacher orchestrates a cover-up after a confrontation between a violent man and his terror-stricken ex-wife results in the man’s accidental death.
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Salvation of a saint
by Keigo Higashino
A man about to leave his marriage is poisoned to death while his wife, the logical suspect, is hundreds of miles away. Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi and his assistant agree to disagree about the guilty party: was it his wife, his girlfriend, his business associate, or a random crime? They call on physics professor Manubu Yukawa, and even the brilliant mind of "Detective Galileo" is challenged by a crime that is implausible, methodical - and perfect
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Invisible murder
by Lene Kaaberbøl
A follow-up to the best-selling The Boy in the Suitcase finds Red Cross nurse Nina Borg risking her marriage to assist her friend Peter at a camp of mysteriously ill Roma refugee children whose circumstances prove more complicated and dangerous than originally believed.
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The burning air
by Erin Kelly
Leading a cozy life of upper-class privilege, altruistic private school headmaster Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since the family matriarch Lydia's passing and are torn by years of secrets when a vengeful stranger arrives, claiming that Lydia was a murderer. By the author of The Poison Tree. (suspense).
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A man without breath
by Philip Kerr
Working in the Wehrmacht's War Crime Bureau of 1943 at the behest of an old friend, sardonic Berlin cop Bernie Gunther struggles to find proof of Russian responsibility for a mass shooting of Polish army officers in the hopes of destabilizing the Western Alliance. By the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Field Gray.
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The hidden child
by Camilla Läckberg
After finding a Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings, crime writer Erica Falck meets with an old friend of her mother's, who is murdered two days later, and Erica and her husband Detective Patrik Hedström must turn to family wartime diaries forclues
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The stonecutter
by Camilla Läckberg
The mysterious drowning of a little girl threatens to tear apart the resort town of Fjallbacka, as Patrik Hedstrom's investigation begins to uncover dark secrets of past generations.
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Easy money
by Jens Lapidus
A fast-paced story by one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense lawyers follows encounters between a vengeful escaped drug dealer, a money-strapped student and a disenchanted mafia thug whose efforts to establish places for themselves are complicated by dangerous elements on both sides of the law.
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The other child
by Charlotte Link
Investigating two murders that occurred months apart in the quiet seaside town of Scarborough, detective Valerie Almond seeks a connection between the two victims and instead discovers a link to the evacuation of children to Scarborough during World War II
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The watcher : a novel
by Charlotte Link
After two of his high-rise neighbors are murdered in their apartments, a would-be good Samaritan with a fondness for spying on the other residents, Samson Segal, comes under intense suspicion as the possible killer in this new thriller from the best-selling German author.
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The tooth tattoo : a Peter Diamond investigation
by Peter Lovesey
Investigating the murder of a young woman whose only identifying mark is a tattoo on one of her teeth, British criminal investigator Peter Diamond teams up with violinist Mel Farran, who is being scouted by a mysterious and elite classical quartet that reveals frightening truths about fandom and the cutthroat world of professional music.
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Barbarian Spring
by Jonas Luscher
On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site of an old Berber oasis. With the wedding party in full swing and the bride riding up the aisle on a camel, no one is aware that the global financial system stands on the brink of collapse. As the wedding guests nurse their hangovers, they learn that the British pound has depreciated tenfold, and their world begins to crumble around them.
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A treacherous paradise
by Henning Mankell
Fleeing her native Sweden in 1905 to escape a life of poverty, Hanna Renström is widowed twice before becoming the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, where she is isolated by racism while bonding with the prostitutes and discovering an inner strength that leads to a boundary-breaking decision. By the author of the Wallander crime series.
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Love burns
by Ednah Mazya
Ilan, a middle-aged professor of astrophysics, discovers that his young wife is having an affair. Terrified of losing her, he decides to confront her lover instead. Their meeting ends in the latter's murder-the unlikely murder weapon being Ilan's pipe-and in desperation, Ilan disposes of the body in the fresh grave of his kindergarten teacher. But when the body is discovered . . .
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The missing file
by Dror Mishani
After 16-year-old Ofer Sharabi goes missing while on his way to school, police detective Avraham Avraham finds his crime-solving theories tested when his investigation causes him to question everything he believes about guilt and innocence. 35,000 first printing.
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The land of green plums
by Herta Müller
In Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign, several young people leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects, but they must face betrayal, suicide, and the reality that even the strongest must bend to the oppressors or resist and die.
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The snowman
by Jo Nesbø
The award-winning Norwegian author of The Devil's Star finds the irascible Harry Hole investigating the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found on a mysteriously built snowman, a case that is complicated by subsequent abductions and a menacing letter.
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The son
by Jo Nesbø
Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father's suicide. By the award-winning author of the Harry Hole series.
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Münster's case
by Håkan Nesser
The untimely murder of a lottery-winning retiree, whose case was initially closed by the quiet confession of his wife, baffles Detective Munster when a neighbor goes missing and contradictory evidence emerges. 20,000 first printing.
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Present darkness : a novel
by Malla Nunn
A tale set in the harsh world of apartheid South Africa finds Detective Emmanuel Cooper cancelling his holiday plans to learn the truth about his best friend's wrongful murder charge by a high-profile white teen, a case that pits him against violent gangs and corrupt government officials. By the author of A Beautiful Place to Die. Original.
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The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us
by James W. Pennebaker
The author of Opening Up draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what our language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals. 40,000 first printing.
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The man who went up in smoke : a Martin Beck mystery
by Maj Sjöwall
Stockholm Homicide Squad's Inspector Martin Beck is assigned to search for Alf Matsson, a vanished Swedish journalist, and finds himself becoming involved in an international racket that leads him to some enigmatic Eastern European underworld figures. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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Roseanna : a Martin Beck mystery
by Maj Sjöwall
The discovery of the body of an unknown rape and murder victim sends Detective Inspector Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad on a six-month search to determine the identity of the victim and her killer from among dozens of suspects. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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The Andalucian friend : a novel
by Alexander Söderberg
Breaking her personal code to date a charming patient, Sophie Brinkmann discovers that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate, a situation that pits her against an itinerant arms dealer, a disturbed detective, a vicious hit man and a wily police chief. 100,000 first printing.
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The land of dreams
by Vidar Sundstøl
U.S. Forest Service officer and grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen lives a quiet life working his job and pursuing the hobby of genealogy in his spare time—until he comes upon the body of a Norwegian tourist brutally murdered near a stone cross on the shore of Lake Superior.
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Only the dead
by Vidar Sundstøl
After he discovers the body of a murdered Norwegian tourist on the shore of Lake Superior—right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than 100 years earlier—U.S. Forest Service office Lance Hansen is not satisfied when the unresolved case is closed four months later and launches an investigation of his own. By the author of The Land of Dreams.
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The ravens
by Vidar Sundstøl
Haunted by visions of a Ojibwe medicine man's killing as a present-day murder investigation approaches an unsatisfying conclusion, forest ranger Lance Hansen confronts troubling connections between both cases in a conclusion to the trilogy that includes Only the Dead.
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The Island of second sight : from the applied recollections of Vigoleis
by Albert Vigoleis Thelen
An English-language release of a German award-winner originally published in 1953 traces the largely autobiographical experiences of inventor Vigoleis, who with his wife scrapes out an existence in 1930s Mallorca and befriends literary figures and Jewish neighbors before making Nazi enemies and plotting a daring escape during the Spanish Civil War.
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